John C. Hollar on LinkedIn: Obituary: Edna O'Brien, the controversial Irish novelist (2024)

Slowly but surely I'm making my way through The Collected Essays of James Baldwin, who would have been 100 years old today. I feel like it's a lifetime project of fundamental reading

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Great documentary filmmakers shine lights into places that are often uncomfortable to see. Odessa Rae's work illuminates how journalists and politicians have become cannon fodder for the authoritarians they oppose, yet still they persist in the face of jail sentences, poison and missiles from drones

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The rock'n'roll photographer Henry Diltz once said about his craft, "If you saw it, you missed it." Jerome Brouillet of AFP didn't see it, and he didn't miss it#olympics#photography#iconichttps://lnkd.in/d3FntdUM

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This smile would be magic no matter where it appeared. To see it at the Olympics once again is priceless. Welcome back, Simone, and thank you for your inspiration#olympics#courage#class

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Congratulations to our friends at the BBC and their partners for epic coverage of the opening ceremony under super-tough conditionsStill trying to figure out the singing blue Smurf :)

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Great staging by the BBC for tonight's Olympics opening ceremony. So good to see Michael Johnson back once more

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Two regrets and one question:I regret that the article below is behind the WSJ paywall because Amazon's creative trick of accounting for "downstream impact" is definitely worth reading about if you canI regret that Alexa, one of my favorite all-time devices, is now viewed within Amazon as a $20 billion smart timer (because it's so much more -- it's also a great bedside alarm)The question: what if anything does the abject failure of Alexa (at least in Amazon's eyes) say about the near-term commercial future of consumer AI?https://lnkd.in/dhvFgGhf

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14 years of Tory penury towards the BBC has transformed the UK into a near-desert when it comes to free-to-air Olympics coverage Why not create a mandatory funding pool that would empower the corporation to acquire unlimited rights to events in which the country has a compelling national interest?Britain has a unique transmedia platform in the BBC. The funding policy should be to embrace and extend it, not to back away from it as private interests employ their tiresome extraction strategies

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An eye-opening and even hilarious look at Duolingo, one of the cheekiest brands in digital learning (and one which I happen to love)

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